Memorandum, State Department Summary of Telegrams

NLT(Naval Aide/261 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE DECLASSIFIED WASHINGTON Dept. Guidelines, March 6, 1937 E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 October 11, 1951 State B NLT, Date 4-580 TOP By DL SECRET SUMMARY OF TELEGRAMS EGYPT Ambassador Caffery reported yesterday that the four ambassadors in Cairo (US, UK, French and Turkish) believe that if the proposals are presented now they might be rejected by the Egyptian Government with great popular applause. Caffery said his three colleagues were all telephoning their foreign offices to convey their sentiments against immediate presentation of the proposals. The British Foreign Office, however, has informed us that even though the chances of Egyptian acceptance of the proposals has been greatly lessened by their announcement of abrogation legislation, it still attaches importance to presenting the proposals right away in order to permit their early publication in the event of rejection. It believes that the chances of Egypt's accepting the proposals would probably be even less sev- eral months from now, and it says the UK would still wish to proceed with setting up the Middle East Command even if Egypt refuses to participate. Moreover, it believes that postponement of the presentation of the proposals might give Egypt the satisfaction of thinking she had successfully vetoed the Middle East Command, or that the Command would be unworkable without Egypt. We have informed our ambassadors in the interested capitals that we agree with the above reasoning of the Foreign Office and consider that our ambassadors in Cairo should present the proposals without further delay. We have instructed Embassies Paris and Ankara to so in- - form the respective governments of our position and to seek their concurrence. IRAN The British UN delegate, Mr. Jebb, informed us yester- day that the Foreign Office had approved his suggested timing for presentation of the resolution on Iran. Jebb accordingly informed Security Council President Muniz (Brazil) yesterday morning that the draft resolution would be circulated on Saturday and he asked Muniz to call a SC meeting for Monday. Jebb said that the Foreign Office also thought it would be useful for Ambassador Gross to see Mosadeq about the resolution before its publication. In regard to obtaining support from other countries for the SC resolution Jebb recommended that we should 11 stay away" from TOP SECRET